Communicating Science

Royalty free stock photos, illustrations, and vectors available with an Adobe Creative Cloud license. Available to PRI staff.

Guide to locating royalty-free stock images in a variety of disciplines.

Licensed by the U of I, Storyblocks offers 1.5 million-plus stock video, audio, and image files. The application is integrated with the campus single sign-on (Shibboleth), so you can log on to Storyblocks by entering your @illinois.edu email address.

High-quality images of University of Illinois people and places. Maintained by Public Affairs. Requires login.

Kaltura Personal Capture is a program that makes it easy for users to create and upload videos to Kaltura through mediaspace.illinois.edu, Compass, or Moodle, available for Windows or Mac. Recorded videos can be a combination of webcams and/or screen recordings. Requires University of Illinois login to Mediaspace.

Curated a list websites for free stock photos.

Find more than 2,000 new building and energy efficiency upgrade images in this DOE resource. Images are searchable by keywords. Each image includes a brief description.

Climate Visuals is the world’s only evidence-based programme for climate change photography.

Links to image collections related to Physical, Life, and Environmental Sciences, Natural Resources. From the University of Illinois Library Finding Images LibGuide.

If you’re looking for an image that you can repurpose for one of your projects and aren’t able to take a photo yourself, there are a ton of free images you can use online without running into any copyright issues — you just have to know where to look. Here, we’ll go over different places where you can search for free images on the web.

A digital asset library of women STEM innovators, for educational and other noncommercial use.

This Image Gallery, provided by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), is a collection of more than 55,000 photographs, scientific images, and videos related to renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, along with photos and videos documenting life at the laboratory. If you use a photo, illustration, or video from the NREL Image Gallery, you must provide appropriate credit and the image number in the credit. Example of credit: Photo by Dennis Schroeder, NREL 54321

Openverse is a search engine for openly-licensed media (formerly Creative Commons image search)

PhyloPic is a database of free silhouette images of animals, plants, and other life forms, available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.

Copyright free images, vectors, and videos. Users may have to create an account to download large files.

Explore a hand-picked collection of 10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse. This is a living database with new images added every week. Search the collection or browse by artist, century, style, theme, or tag.

Over 1,000,000 free high-resolution photos brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.